All my BuzzFeed News articles can be found here. Below, the greatest hits.

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These People Are Making Money Off A Bogus Cancer Cure That Doctors Say Could Poison You(BuzzFeed, 2017)Apricot seeds can cure cancer — or so thousands of cancer patients believed in the 1970s, despite lots of evidence to the contrary. Now, in an era when natural remedies are no longer fringe and wellness is a multitrillion-dollar industry, this widely debunked theory has taken on a new life as a hydra-headed e-commerce ecosystem that regulators are virtually powerless to stop.

Inside The Anti-Science Forces Of The Internet(BuzzFeed, 2017)Welcome to the corner of the internet that’s hell-bent on convincing you that GMOs are poisonous, vaccines cause autism, and climate change is a government-sponsored hoax. The message is traveling far and wide.

The Inside Story Of How A Food Startup Cracked (BuzzFeed, 2015)For all of Good Eggs’ noble intentions, big money, and tech bells and whistles, reinventing the grocery store turned out to be much harder than anticipated. What does its stumble mean for the future of ordering food online?

Alt-Natural: Say Hello To The Apple That Never Browns (BuzzFeed, 2015)On his tiny family farm, Neal Carter invented an apple he thinks can help improve global health, minimize food waste, and change the agricultural landscape forever. But will anyone actually eat it?

Outsourcing A Life (San Francisco Chronicle, 2013)Sunday special report: A Bay Area couple hired an Indian surrogate and traveled across the world to meet her and their child. Would they finally start the family they dreamed of? Winner of Feature Storytelling award from the Society of Professional Journalists (Northern California), finalist for Journalism award in the PEN Center USA Literary Awards, first-place winner for Best Special Section from the California Newspaper Publishers Association.

This Biotech CEO Doesn’t Have A PhD, But He Did Leave School Under A Cloud(BuzzFeed, 2017)Gabriel Otte has been identified on many websites, including his own company’s, as having a PhD. But he does not. The CEO of Freenome, which is backed by Andreessen Horowitz, left a PhD program at the University of Pennsylvania, where a professor raised questions about some of his research, BuzzFeed News has learned. (Here's a follow-up storyabout the challenges of making blood tests to detect cancer early.)

Women May Soon Lose The Ability To Get An Abortion Via Webcam(BuzzFeed, 2015)An upcoming ruling in Iowa could have consequences for women in rural areas where health care is scarce. “When legislators talk about telemedicine, generally they say, ‘It’s a great new technology that can provide health care to people who otherwise would not be able to access treatments. When they talk about telemedicine in the context of abortion, they see it as unproven, untested, and potentially dangerous.”

Who Owns Your Steps? (BuzzFeed, 2015)Millions of people are logging fitness workouts with wearables. Now a growing number of them are trying to free their data from their devices.